Washing-machine.



PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906.

AMMOODY WASHING MACHINE.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT oFFroE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application filed May 14, 1906. Serial No. 316,846.

To 60M ZUZZ/OTH/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMANDA MOODY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Harris, in the county of Louisa and State of Virginia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in lashing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements inwashing-machines and the object of the invention is to produce a simpleand efiicient device of this nature comprising a rotary rubber and theprovision of a series of adjustable spring-pressed rods carrying rollerswith corrugated surfaces adapted to be held above the clothes and tobear against the same as they are rotated by a rubber fixed to arotatable shaft.

The invention comprises various other details of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fullydescribed and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the washing-machine. Fig.2 is a sectional view on line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view showing the manner of attachment of the central shaftto the disk having projections thereon.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates the body portion of the machine, which may be of any desiredshape and is provided with a series of longitudinal corrugations B uponthe inner surface thereof. In the bottom of the body portion is aconical-shaped bearing-block C, with a recess 0 in the apex thereof inwhich a pintle D integral with the disk D is adapted to have bearings. Eand E designate two sections forming the top of the machine, the formerof which, E, is adapted to be stationary and the latter connected to thesection E by hinges F, whereby access may be had to the interior of thebody portion of the machine. Suitable screws are provided for holdingthe section E to the machine. A shaft M has a bearing in the section Eof the wheel H, which is in mesh with a similar bev-' eled wheel I,fixed to the shaft K, which latter is journaled in the standards N,rising from the section E. A crank-handle O is fixed to the shaft K,whereby the same may be rotated. Said disk D is preferably circular inoutline and is provided with a series of projections Q upon the uppersurface thereof, which have corrugated surfaces and serve as rubbers.The center of said disk D has a slot or recess Gr substantially H-shapedand is adapted to receive a similar-shaped proj ection R, formed at thelower end of the shaft M, whereby the latter'may be securely held tosaid disk.

The section 'E of the top is provided with a ertures to receive the rodsT, there being s 10WI1 in the drawings in section in Fig. 3 three pairsof said rods, one pair of which is shown in elevation in Fig. 1, and theupper portions of said rods are threaded to receive the adjusting-nutsP. Each of said rods has fixed thereto a collar T, and S S designatesprings, one being mounted upon each rod and bearing between a collar Tand the under surface of the top section E of the cover. The lower endof each rod T is formed into an eye T in which the spindle ends W of thecorrugated rollers W are j ournaled.

In operation the clothes are placed within the body portion of themachine and on the disk having the rubbers Q. The rods are adjusted sothat they will come in contact with the upper surfaces of the clothes,and by a rotary movement of the disk the clothes will be turned upon thedisk and agitated by the rubbers and also by said corrugated rollers,thereby thoroughly cleansing the same.

What I claim is 1. A washing-machine comprising a body portion, arotatable shaft mounted therein, a disk fixed to said shaft, projectionsupon the upper surface of said disk, acover, adjustable rods fixedthereto and depending within the body portion of the machine, corrugatedrollers journaled upon said rods, and means for rotating said shaft, asset forth.

2. A washing-machine comprising a body portion, a rotatable shaft journaled therein, a disk fixed to said shaft and provided withprojections upon the upper surface thereof, a top to the machine,spring-pressed adjustable rods carried by the cover and depending withinthe machine, corrugated rollers journaled at the lower ends of saidrods, and means for rotating said shaft, as set forth.

3. A washing-machine comprising a body portion, a shaft j ournaledtherein, a disk fixed to said shaft and provided with projections uponthe upper surface thereof, a top to said machine made up of two pieceshinged together, rods passing through one of the sections of the top andprovided with eyes at their lower ends, corrugated rollers havingspindle ends journaled in said eyes, collars fixed upon said rods,springs interposed between the collars and top, adjustable screwsmounted upon the threaded ends of said rods and adapted to bear againstthe outer surface of one of the sections of the cover, and gearmechanism for rotating said. shaft, as set forth.

4. A washing-machine comprising a body portion, a bearing-block in thebottom thereof provided with a central bearing-recess, a disk having alug D having a bearing in said recess, a slot in the upper surface ofthe disk, a shaft having lugs projecting therefrom seated in the recessin said disk, projections upon the upper surface of the disk, a top tothe machine, rods depending therefrom and positioned within the machine,rollers journaled. upon said rods, and means for rotating said disk, asset forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

AMANDA MOODY.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. CooKE, NANNIE R. CooKE.

